By the time Ohio State tailback Ezekiel Elliott scored the third of four TDs in the first half in a 44-28 win against Notre Dame at the BattleFrog Fiesta Bowl on Friday, one had to Jean-Francois Jacques Jersey wonder right away.How would the Buckeyes have fared against either Clemson or Alabama the night before? Ohio State looked a lot like a playoff contender against Michigan and Notre Dame. In those two wins, J.T. Barrett totaled 324 pa sing yards, 235 rushing yards and 5 TDs. Elliott had 366 rushing yards and six TDs.PLAYOFFS: | | That's enough to ask the annual obligatory question. Should the College Football Playoff add teams? If so, which number works best?Let's be clear. The present four-team mix isn't going anyway anytime soon. The playoff has been comprised of conference champions only the past two seasons, and two-lo s Stanford was the only Power 5 conference champ left out this season. Aside from the Big 12 debate that left TCU and Baylor out in 2014, the four-team model is succe sful.Ezekiel Elliott: 149 yards rushing, four touchdowns (Getty Images)Eight teams might be Cam Talbot Jersey too much. Do you really want to debate who college football's ninth-best team is and whether that team deserves to be in the playoff? That would have been between No. 8 Notre Dame and No. 9 Florida State this season. Still, Ohio State checked in at No. 7 in the final College Football Playoff rankings, and the Buckeyes looked the part of a team that could've done damage in championship competition.MORE: | | Six teams is the right compromise should the College Football Playoff committee decide to expand in the future. That would allow in most cases the five Power Andrew Ference Jersey 5 conference champions to make the field with a wild card. Stanford gets in. Iowa would have been the wild card this year. It would've been TCU last year. And the Horned Frogs' faithful felt a similar feeling as Buckeyes fans after winning the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl 42-3 against Ole Mi s Ryan Smyth Jersey last season.A six-team format this season would've given both Alabama and Clemson a bye, something that doesn't look so ridiculous given the way those teams handled their busine s in Thursday's College Football Playoff semifinals. It would be a reward for the regular season, which college football needs to protect over everything else. No other sport has a better regular season.IMAGES: | Yet it's that regular season that cost the Buckeyes a shot at the College Football Playoff in the first place. Ohio State me sed around with a weak nonconference schedule, a quarterback controversy and its Big Ten schedule before playing its worst game against eventual Big Ten champion Michigan State. That's not the Spartans' fault at all.Ohio State showed enough in win against Michigan and Notre Dame to make you believe it could've taken a pretty good shot at either Alabama or Clemson in an expanded playoff field. Don't think for a second that won't be the conversation in Columbus until next fall.Four Andrej Sekera Jersey teams might not be enough. Eight teams would be too much. So if down the line when another call for expansion comes and the College Football Playoff feels the need for another jolt that would make more money, there's always that game-changing play.A pick-six might work.